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i iuiedimtw A. P. BALDWIN, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 84,469, dated December 1, 1868 antedeted November 21,1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN' BRDLE-BIT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent: and making parl: of'the' same.

To all who/ml it may concern Be it known that I, A. P. BALDWIX, of thecity of Newark, in the county of Essex, and Stateof New J ersey, haveinvented certain improvements in Bridle- Bits and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full and exact description of the same, referencebeing had herein to the drawings that accompany this specication,makingpart of the. same.

llhe nature of' my improvement consists in combining an upper and lowermouth-piece in such a manner that the one can vibrate endwise upon or inthe other, while together they form but on'e mouthpiece, the upper piecemoving while the lower is stationary,

In the drawinge# Figure l is the complete bit, and

Figure 2 shows the form of the upper piece.

An endwise section is shown at A.

The lower piece b is pivoted to the ,end of the sides O, or cheek-piecesof the bit, and a groove, e, is formed the entire length.

The ends of the upper piece, fig. 2, are turned up,

v so as to place the pivots by which it is attached, at a distance abovethe pivots of the lower piece b, to susi pend' the upper piece a justthe distance labove the lower piece b, that, as the cheeks C shall bemoved either way from being at right angles with the mouthpiece, thetraversing of the piece a will' bring itdown in or on to the piece b,and be a stop thereto at the proposed inclination of the cheeks.

The object of the improvement is to retain control of vicious horses,that will get the bit between their teeth, by appealing to theirfeelings in a sidewise cramp of their jaws, which will compel attentionthereto.

I do 4not claim broadly a double mouth-piece.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is#- Pivoting the two'mouth-pieces, a and b, tothe cheekpieces C, the pivots of the one being at a distance from theother greater than that of the mouth-pieces, substantially as describedand shown.

. A. P. BALDWIN.

Witnesses:

W. M. GoonING, EDWARD GoLLvER,

